Tunku Abdul Majid
| Abdul Majid | |
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| Born |
20 July 1970 Johor Bahru, Johor |
| Spouse | Tunku Teh Mazni Binti Tunku Yusuf |
| Issue | 1. Tunku Mahmood Iskandar 2. Tunku Aisha Menjalara Iskandar |
| House | House of Temenggong |
| Father | Sultan Iskandar |
| Mother | Sultanah Zanariah |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
Tunku Abdul Majid Idris ibni Almarhum Sultan Mahmud Iskandar Al-Haj (born 20 July 1970, Johor Bahru) is the Tunku Bendahara of Johor. A sports enthuasiast, Tunku Majid has served honorary positions in sports associations in Malaysia, including the President of the Malaysian Golf Association and Deputy President of the Malaysian Hockey Federation. An incident in 1992 which saw Tunku Majid allegedly assaulting a hockey coach culminated in the stripping of legal immunity among members of the royalty and briefly generated controversy within public circles.
He is the half-brother of the current Sultan of Johor, Sultan Ibrahim Ismail.
Tunku Majid is the second son of Sultan Iskandar by his second wife Sultanah Zanariah, and was born in 1970 at the Sultanah Aminah Hospital in Johor Bahru. In his youth, he was enrolled into English College Johore Bahru before pursuing his studies at MENLO College, Palo Alto in San Francisco. Tunku Majid also took part in international sports tournaments in the 1980s as a youth, particularly hockey and golf, which he excelled in. In 1989, after his uncle, Tunku Abdul Rahman, the incumbent Tunku Bendahara of Johor, Tunku Majid was appointed by his father to succeed Tunku Abdul Rahman.
In January 2006, Tunku Majid married Tunku Teh Mazni Binti Tunku Yusuf, a member of Kedah and Kelantan royal family. Tunku Teh's father is the son of Tunku Temenggong of Kedah, Tunku Muhammad Jiwa Ibni Sultan Abdul Hamid and her mother Tengku Embon Suria, is the daughter of Tengku Sri Pekerma DiRaja of Kelantan, Tengku Abdul Majid Ibni Tengku Besar Tuan Yusof. They have a son, Tunku Mahmood Iskandar, whom Tunku Majid fondly named him after his father, Sultan Mahmud Iskandar and a daughter named Tunku Aisha Menjalara Iskandar.
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